Farmers Mill, Kentucky

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Harlan census division. It stands on Farmers Branch. The Survey maps it on the Harlan quadrangle.

Farmers Mill within Harlan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 25 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1887 USGS Jonesville quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Jonesville quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
1903 USGS Harlan quadrangle1:48000
1916 USGS Harlan quadrangle1:48000
1919 USGS Harlan quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1954 USGS Harlan quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Middlesboro quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

192 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 192 fires within 5 miles of Farmers Mill between 1997 and 2020, burning about 12,869 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 32 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	84
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	52
Arson/incendiarism	32
Recreation and ceremony	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	PINE BRANCH FIRE
23 July 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harlan County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Chevrolet	0.5 miles	25
Lenarue	1.0 miles	25
Mary Helen	1.5 miles	25
Tway	2.0 miles	25
Bobs Creek	2.5 miles	24
Dressen	2.5 miles	25
Elcomb	2.7 miles	25
Rex	2.7 miles	25

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122553824

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 491993. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.